This paper applies performance evaluation of ceramic industry of Bangladesh and to test its financial soundness. The main aim is achieved through ratio analysis of four selected ceramic (Fu Wang, Monno, Shinepukur and Standard) companies in Bangladesh. Measurement of financial performance by ratio analysis helps identify organizational strengths and weaknesses by detecting financial anomalies a...

We investigate the generalization properties of a data-mining approach to single-position day trading which uses an evolutionary algorithm to construct fuzzy predictive models of financial instruments. The models, expressed as fuzzy rule bases, take a number of popular technical indicators on day t as inputs and produce a trading signal for day t+ 1 based on a dataset of past observations of wh...

Ms Baranoski has disclosed that she is/was a consultant/advisor to Mölnlycke Health Care and 3M and is/was a member of the speaker’s bureau for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Ms LeBlanc has disclosed that she is a member of the speaker’s bureau for Johnson & Johnson, 3M, Mölnlycke Health Care, KCI Medical, and Hollister, and was a member of the speaker’s bureau for ConvaTec. All staff in a posi...

In March 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) convened several clinical technical expert panels (C-TEP) to provide recommendations for improving various aspects of hemodialysis management. One of the C-TEPs was tasked with recommending measures to decrease vascular access-related infections. The members of this C-TEP, who are the authors of this manuscript, concluded unanim...

Due to its high productivity at relatively low costs, algorithmic trading has become increasingly popular over the last few years. As news can improve the returns generated by algorithmic trading, there is a growing need to use online news information in algorithmic trading in order to react real-time to market events. The biggest challenge is to automate the recognition of financial events fro...

The Euler (or gradient) allocation technique defines a financial institution’s marginal cost of a risk exposure via calculation of the gradient of a risk measure evaluated at the institution’s current portfolio position. The technique, however, relies on an arbitrary selection of a risk measure. We reverse the sequence of this approach by calculating the marginal costs of risk exposures for a p...

Fraud is a common phenomenon in business, and according to Section 24 of the Iranian Auditing Standards, it is the fraudulent act of one or more managers, employees, or third parties to derive unfair advantage and any intentional or unlawful conduct. Financial statements are a means of transmitting confidential management information about the<br ...

BACKGROUND In-depth qualitative research into perceived socioeconomic position-related stigmatisation among people living at the lower end of our socioeconomic hierarchy is necessary for getting more insight in the possible downside of living in an increasingly meritocratic and individualistic society. METHODS Seventeen interviews were conducted among a group of Dutch people with a low socioe...

A puzzling fact in macroeconomics is that small and transitory shocks seem to be followed by large and persistent fluctuations in macroeconomic variables. Theoretical models explaining this empirical fact focus on the borrower but most of them neglect to model the bank. This paper proposes a framework in which changes in the financial condition of banks can have persistent aggregate consequence...